pensionreforms led to an increase in the household savings rate in Germany until about2010. As domestic investment opportunities … could not absorb these additional sav-ings, they were partly invested abroad. The German current account-to-GDP ratiorose …. After 2010, private savings remained rather stable, but opportunities to investin Germany declined further. Our simulations …

-sectional heterogeneity to establish a direct link between labor market reforms and changes in net foreign assets via a precautionary savings …

Based on the relation between investment and domestic saving proposed by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) to verify capital … autoregressive (SVAR) involving investment and saving in order to evaluate the effect of exogenous shocks through impulse response … showed that investment is sensitive to contemporaneous innovation on saving and this effect lasts for a long time. Regarding …

capital in the past. The conclusion is that within EMU domestic saving and investment will be less correlated than they were …